I teach religious education and ethics didactics. I am the course coordinator for independent projects at undergraduate and advanced levels. I supervise students at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels.

Doctoral students: Isabella Varracchio, philosophy didactics; Anna Graan, religious education.

I received my PhD in 2013 from Stockholm University in Education, with a thesis in religious education titled Existential Configurations: On How the Understanding of Life Takes Shape in a Social Context. In the study, I examine how young adults aged 19–29 describe and make sense of their lives, which existential questions are central to them, and the significance of social and cultural contexts for their processes of meaning-making.

In recent years, I have taken an interest in and written about how young people today talk about faith and religion, and what implications this may have for the subject of religious education in Swedish schools.

My research interest in religious education in the Swedish school context includes the question of whether the subject contributes to- or hinders- young people’s understanding of faith and religion. In this context, I have, among other things, examined the concept of worldview.

My postdoctoral study is presented in the book The Crisis of Participation: The Pedagogical Challenge of Worship (2016). Within the framework of the study, choir singers aged 19–40, as well as priests and church musicians from four different types of parishes in Sweden, were interviewed. The study revolves around the meaning of the concept of participation and shows that there is no self-evident connection between attending and truly participating. A brief presentation of the study is available in the article “A Pedagogical Perspective on Worship in the Church of Sweden,” published in Svensk kyrkotidning, no. 2, 2016.

Between 2017 and 2019, I received funding to follow, as a researcher, the prioritization of worship implemented in Asarum Parish in Blekinge. The overall aim of the research project was to contribute to an analysis of this prioritization and to examine how different aspects of participation are challenged, shaped, and transformed in worship practices during the process. The project is reported, among other outputs, in the book Distance, Participation, Longing: Worship in a Time of Religious Change (2021).

During 2018–2019, I was responsible as a researcher for two projects on learning and education in Västerås Parish and the Diocese of Västerås, respectively. The projects are presented in the report A Process for Real (2019), and the book The Journey Is Everything (2021).

Together with the sociology of religion scholar Anneli Winell, I led a project on the validity of the concept of calling and ordained ministry in a time of religious change. The overall aim was to explore and deepen the understanding of how prospective priests and pastors describe their calling, identity, and future tasks within the Church of Sweden and the Uniting Church in Sweden, and how these descriptions can be understood in a time of religious transformation. The project is presented in the book Called to Serve as Priest and Pastor in a Time of Religious Change (2023).

In 2022, I led a project focusing on confirmed youth. The aim was to deepen the understanding of what knowledge young people perceive they have gained during their confirmation period by interpreting their own descriptions of the experience. The project is presented in the book Where Is Jesus? Young Voices on Confirmation Education (2023). Link to the publisher.

Since autumn 2025, I have been leading a research project aimed at deepening the understanding and knowledge of individuals who have chosen to leave a Christian context and who identify themselves as “ex-religious” or use similar terms to describe their distancing from Christianity. The empirical material consists of in-depth interviews.